The Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls was established
in 2018 through the generosity of Ellyn Uram Kaschak, a 1965 alumna of
University and a pioneer and developer of feminist theory, to continue her fight for
equality for women and girls. Ellyn Kaschak at
As a woman, Ellyn Uram Kaschak had to fight her way to a PhD when there weren’t many
programs open to women. Nor were there many male faculty willing to teach courses
on feminism.
Kaschak provided a seven-figure gift to to establish the Ellyn
Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls to continue her fight
for equality for females.
The institute supports research in different fields, both new and ongoing projects
that contribute to Kaschak’s activist vision of a direct, positive impact on the lives
of women and girls. It will create a body of evidence-based practice supported by
rigorous scholarly work, providing a feedback loop between practice and scholarship
in the realm of social justice for women and girls.
For more on Kaschak, see BingUNews and her 2017 TEDx talk, “”&Բ;
